Northampton, England: Mad Love (Publishing) Ltd., 1988. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. "Our lives are not fashion statements. Taking action is not a fad. Our work is that of vision and persistence. We will use every skill we have, and share what we know. At first we do this simply because we were asked. We know how to organize, to write or draw pictures. As we work, we remember why. We..... More

New York, NY: Coronet Communications, Inc., 1970. First Printing. Softcover. An exemplary softcover-original specimen of commodified radicalism from the 1960s, just as it was beginning to coagulate from peaceful flower-power into stridency (as signified by the cover image of a hippie couple, the woman giving the peace sign while the man raises his clenched fist). With articles & poetry by the now-venerable NYC journalist Nat Henthoff, poet & Warhol "factory"..... More

Berkeley, CA: Cleis Press, 2004. First edition. Softcover. This volume "....brings together a diverse collection of primary and secondary texts that allow the Beat writers to be viewed from and through the perspective of their fluid sexuality. It is the first book of its nature. There is, of course, more queer and queer-ish Beats writing than could be included in any single volume, but I hope that Queer Beats provides..... More

Madison, MN: American Writers Against The Vietnam War/ Sixties Press, 1970. Pre-First Edition, Second Printing. Single Folded Sheet. "Helicopters flutter overhead. the death-/ bee is coming. Supersabres/ like knots of neurotic energy sweep/ around and return./ This is Hamilton's triumph./ This is the advantage of a centralized bank./ B-52's come from Guam. All the teachers/ die in flames. The hopes of Tolstoy fall asleep in the/ ant-heap./ Do not ask..... More

Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Oasis Publications, 1977. First Edition. Softcover. "(Breyten) Breytenbach has no ultimate truth to offer, no universal symbol to communicate. He has not prepared an aesthetic banquet for the senses, and there is no rhetoric in his visionary toasts. He shows unforgettably the plain facts of his panic paradise: Experiences of convulsion and passion, which he lived as a proud victim of his sensitivity, in a 'state of..... More

New York, NY: Coronet Communications, Inc., 1971. First Printing. Softcover. This compilation of radical writings features the essay "Lexington Addict's Hospital" by William S. Burroughs, Jr. (actually William S. Burroughs III, 1947-1981). The ill-fated author describes his experiences at the federal facility where his father, the great William S. Burroughs, was also incarcerated. Also contains fiery articles by two anonymous Weatherman members ("The Long and Winding Road to the Underground")..... More

New York, NY: New American Library, 1968. First Softcover Edition Thus; Fifth Printing. Softcover. "One thing is certain about marihuana: there are stringent laws against it. But is it really harmful? Or innocuous? Or even beneficial? What is its relationship to sex? To violence? To addiction? In this book, comprehensive, objective evidence is presented- from doctors, scientists, historians, and writers. Some base their testimony on observation. Others on personal experience..... More

London/New York: High Risk Books, 1995. First Trade Edition. Hardcover. First published in 1991 as a sumptuous limited edition by the Whitney Museum of American Art, this is the first trade edition of a late short novel that "tells an important story about environmental devastation in a way that only Burroughs can tell it" (back cover blurb). Issued without dust jacket, in glossy pictorial boards. A beautiful copy. As New..... More

Cambridge, MA: Richard Cambridge, 1992. First Edition. Sheets in "VeloBind" Binding. Inscribed & signed by Richard Cambridge to Thomas Rain Crowe. A self-published book of poems by Richard Cambridge, an intense "Slam" poet who appropriately lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts near Boston. We can imagine these tough, topical, momentum-generating Jeremiads being bellowed by Cambridge at a Poetry Slam, as he frequently & prominently does. A bold production bound in "VeloBind" with..... More

San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 2015. First Edition. Hardcover. "...From the beginning the aim was to publish across the board, avoiding the provincial and the academic, and not publishing (that pitfall of the little press) just 'our gang.' I had in mind rather an international, dissident, insurgent ferment. What has proved most fascinating are the continuing cross-currents and cross-fertilizations between poets widely separated by language or geography, from France..... More

San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1966. First Printing. Softcover. The third number of the landmark first series of literary journals published by Lawrence Ferlinghetti's iconic Beat imprint, City Lights Books. Features an article by Richard Shattuck about Surrealist poet & playwright Guillaume Apollinaire (Apollinaire's great Whitman Happening") with a photograph of Apollinaire; Mary Beach's translation from French into English of a fragment from her husband Claude Pelieu's prose-poetry work..... More

Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2018. Limited First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. "Putting Peter Coyote's life into a few words would be impossible. He is an actor and writer. You may know his distinctive voice from so many documentaries and movies. He was a Digger and remembers those turbulent times well." (front flap) An essay by Peter Coyote, the acclaimed actor, screenwriter, director & author, about his experiences as a founding..... More

Nicholasville, KY: Wind Publications, 2008. First Edition. Softcover. Signed by and from the Collection of Thomas Rain Crowe. "The essays of Thomas Rain Crowe combine with the stirring illustrations of Robert Johnson to produce a prophetic vision of the world in which we live -- a vision of what we have and what we stand to lose through our careless disregard for the Earth and its finite resources. A kind..... More